Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-18
DAKOTA.

business properly In the territory.
The Hermosa Pilot says that Custer county
is iourshing like a green bay tree.
Gov. Church is trying To inject a little re-
form into the management OF territorial af-
fairs.
The musical prodigy of the territory is said
to be little 4-year old Blanche Hamer, Of Val
ley City.
The Mail Is the name OF a new paper Just
started at Edgeley, the terminal town Of the
Milwaukee.
1t is estimated that $500 Dakota farmers
are members OF the alliance. The number of
societies Is 426.
Petitions are In circulation at ARMOUR ask
ing the commissioners to call an election
under the new local option law.
Prof. Norton, vino has been a member of
the faculty of Yankton college for two years,
has resigned and removed to Northtield,
Mimi.
An enterprising Huronite Is building a
forty foot stern-wheel steamboat 10 navigate
the James river from there to Columbia, 100
miles.
George Stevens, a miner at the Galena
h'ihNf hNNA hN"A'DN', "NN aNAha@At"''l
killed on Saturday. He leaves a family IN
Kansas.
The house OF Rev. B. Metzke, a German
Baptist minister OF Campbell county, was
! consumed by fire last week. The house aud
Its contents were valued at 81, 900 and were
uninsured.
The commencement exercises Of the Yank-
[ ton college concluded Wednesday and a
ception was held at night al the residence
| Rev. Joseph Ward. There was bat one grad.
; ate, f.. II. Pound.
Z The sheriff, Thursday night at Yankt IN,
j arrested Jack Doyle, John Wilson ana Geo.
Cole, who are charged with highway robbery.
a The crime was committed on the public road
, between Yankton and Lesteryille at an early
! hour that morning.
: The grand jury at Pierre on Wednesday
found an indictment against Charles Spencer
for stealing cattle while in the employ Of the
Wyoming Cattle company. Spencer f. well
: known In the west and has gained a wide rep
utation for his trickery and fraud.
The mystery concerning the sudden death
, of Henry Hopkins near Rapid City on the
!, evening of May Is seems TO grow deeper with
time. The coroner's jury returned a verdict
that death resulted 'from a violent blow
causing dislocation Of the neck, said blow
having been inflicted by a blunt instrument
In some manner to the jury unknown"
The ten persons who attended the murderer
Nelson's funeral, near Huron, Thurs.
day were very badly scared by
the approach Of a cyclone. 1t came
: directly toward the house, when all took 10
> their teams and started fer safety, leaving
Nelson's corpse alone. They returned when
the cloud changed its course aud disappeared.
Another corps Of engineers anu surveyors
arrived at Watertown Saturday from La
Crosse, Wis, and the report Is current, and
pretty well authenticated, that they are ~ the
employ Of the Chio9go, Milwaukee and st.
, Paul railway, and that that company viii eX-
tend its line to Watcrtown from Ii Crosse
the coming Summer. This, with the Dulu D,
Waterfowl and Pacific, which is now being
: surveyed southwest from Wator;own, and the
extension Of the Manitoba, gives that city ten
rad.ating lines Of railways, or three more than
has any other town in DAKOTA, Aberd, en-
coming second with seven lines.
' The Sioux Falls electric plant has been pur-
chased by the Cascade Milling company who
will arrange 10 furnish electricity by means
OF water power, IT having been demonstrated
that the arc lights cannot be furnished by
steam power with any profit. There will be
a system OF incandescent lights introduced
for inside lighting and power VIII be fur
nished for running light machinery a: cheaper
; rates than can be obtained IN any oth,r
way.
There was a statehood meeting at Huron
Tuesday afternoon. Of the prominent per
sons present there were Gov. Mellette and
Frank Crane Of Watertown, Judge Campbell
Of Yankton, Carey OF Redfeld, owen Of De
Smet, Judge Edgerton OF Mitchell, Payne OF
Miller, Haynes Of Parker and Drake and
Plummer Of Aberdeen. Resolutions were
passed urging cooperative work In both
North and South Dakota, and for a vigorous
, effort to secure a full vote on the division
question in November; also to formulate a
call and name a place for a convention. A
: committee Of seven was appointed, which
met and recommended Huron as the place for
the convention and July IA as the date. Three
OF the committee were Democrats.
Washington special: Speaker Carlisle has
not only spoken, but he has written TO polit-
ical friend and admirer in this city expressing
his belief that the government should offer
adequate compensation TO the evicted settlers
Of the Crow Creek and Winnebago reserya-
tons. This idea, not an elanescent one by
any means, will be placed in the form Of a
law as soon as congress conyencs and gets
down TO work next winter. Carlisle Is not
only a great man, but a Just man and a wise
leader. He realizes that, although the OPEN
ing Of the reservations by President Arthur
was unlawful, there were settlers who hon.
estly went there and expended their little all
upon the supposed faith and honesty OF the
proclamation. But since the present admin
~istration discovered that the Arthur admins
tration had been in error and ordered the
lands closed, II is realized that the settlers
have suffered and deserve government aid.
The Watertown correspondent OF the St.
Paul Globe writes: interviewing a number Of
farmers, your correspondent learned the fol-
lowing statistics regarding the crop outlook: